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Gladio was the Italian name for NATO-linked stay-behind networks prepared for Soviet occupation; Italian parliamentary inquiries and European reporting established the clandestine structure while debates continue over links to domestic terrorism.

The 1989 FBI/EPA raid on Rocky Flats nuclear-weapons plant exposed environmental crimes; a special grand jury reportedly sought serious charges, but DOJ plea negotiations and sealed materials fueled decades of missing-files controversy.

USS Scorpion (SSN-589) was lost 22 May 1968 with ninety-nine dead; a Navy Court of Inquiry could not ascertain certain cause. Later FOIA releases of inquiry and advisory materials, plus ONI-associated acoustic analyses (e.g., Rule), contest explosion and mechanism readings. Soviet-attack folklore is labeled contested. Contested/L2 keeps Navy doors primary without sealing a single cause.

Operation Fishbowl (1962) lofted high-altitude nuclear shots from Johnston Atoll; Starfish Prime on 9 July 1962 detonated ~1.4 Mt at ~400 km. Official framing stressed planned effects science; DNA/DTIC and LANL paperwork document EMP far larger than expected, Hawaiian electrical damage, satellite kills, and artificial radiation belts.

Agent Orange was a U.S. herbicide mixture used in Vietnam; dioxin contamination drove decades of veteran and Vietnamese health claims, VA recognition fights, and corporate litigation.

Operation MONGOOSE was the Kennedy administration’s post–Bay of Pigs covert program, supervised by the Special Group (Augmented) with Edward Lansdale as Chief of Operations, to foster an internal overthrow of the Castro government. FRUS Volume X, NS Archive briefing-book exhibits, and NARA Special Group minutes document objectives, status reviews, and sabotage-option debates. Documented/L1; proposals labeled as proposals.

Before Los Alamos needed implosion lenses, the Manhattan Engineer District needed uranium. The richest known pitchblende on Earth sat at Shinkolobwe in Katanga, Belgian Congo, under Union Minière du Haut-Katanga.

On 1 May 1960 a U.S. U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union; Eisenhower's cover story collapsed when the Soviets produced pilot Francis Gary Powers and wreckage.

The 10–11 October 1957 Windscale Pile No. 1 fire released iodine-131 across northwest England’s milk map. Cmnd. 302 went to Parliament on 8 November 1957; the full Penney Committee report, submitted 26 October 1957, stayed unpublished until The National Archives opened AB 86/25 in January 1988—White Paper theater beside thirty-one years of sealed technical inquiry.

Project Coast was apartheid South Africa's chemical and biological weapons program; Truth and Reconciliation testimony and trials exposed assassination plots and toxin research.

The Phoenix Program was a U.S./South Vietnamese counterinsurgency effort targeting Viet Cong infrastructure; hearings and later histories document assassination, torture controversies, and quota pressures.

In the Sea of Okhotsk, U.S. Navy deep-diving teams from special-mission submarines placed recording devices on a Soviet military undersea communications cable. The joint Navy–NSA–CIA collection effort later nicknamed Ivy Bells captured traffic that Moscow treated as physically secure—much of it unexpectedly plain.

Operation Fortitude, under the Bodyguard deception frame for OVERLORD, aimed German attention at the Pas-de-Calais and Norway while Allies landed in Normandy. MI5’s Double-Cross System—documented in TNA KV files, Service history pages, and Masterman’s B1A report—fed controlled agent traffic that supported that story. The papers settle a deception system, not a claim that spies alone won the war.

NIST NCSTAR 1-9 and 1A conclude fire-induced progressive collapse of WTC 7; NIST FAQs acknowledge roughly 2.25 seconds of free-fall acceleration during the visible descent. Adherent critique treats that stage as demolition evidence. The Archive documents NIST reports and the freefall claim-set side-by-side under contested/L2 without baptizing controlled demolition or dismissing the measurement.

The Lavon Affair (Operation Susannah) was a 1954 Israeli false-flag bombing plot in Egypt; trials and later Israeli political fallout documented the spy scandal.

USAF MOL (announced 1965, cancelled 1969) planned Gemini-B crews operating a classified reconnaissance telescope (KH-10/DORIAN). Declassification waves show a crewed spy-station path killed by cheaper unmanned systems.

Unit 731 was Imperial Japan's biological and chemical warfare research unit that conducted lethal human experiments; postwar U.S. immunity deals traded data for protection from prosecution.

The Walker spy ring supplied Soviet intelligence with U.S. Navy cryptographic key lists and machine settings from the late 1960s until FBI arrests in May–June 1985. NSA cryptologic history (Book IV), the Whitworth Ninth Circuit opinion, and FBI/USNI narratives document the crypto compromise. Keep Ivy Bells/Pelton as sibling, not merge.

On 18 March 1969, B-52s struck Base Area 353 inside Cambodia under the first “Breakfast” sortie of what became Operation Menu—a secret U.S.

Operation Mincemeat was a 1943 British deception that planted false invasion plans on a corpse; declassified files and official histories confirm it helped mislead German defenses before Sicily.

In the late 1950s, physicists at General Atomic sketched a spaceship that would ride a chain of nuclear explosions.

NTSB Flight Path and autopilot studies reconstruct American Airlines Flight 77; the ASCE Pentagon Building Performance Report (NIST-hosted) documents impact and fire damage; the 9/11 Commission integrates those findings. Adherent claim-sets emphasize early façade photography and debris optics. Contested/L2 dual-refuse: no “no plane” baptism and no trivia dismissal.

On 10 July 1985, DGSE agents mined Greenpeace's Rainbow Warrior at Marsden Wharf, Auckland, killing Fernando Pereira. PM Laurent Fabius admitted state responsibility on 22 September 1985; Charles Hernu resigned; Pierre Lacoste was dismissed.

CENTCOM's Operation Earnest Voice, reported publicly around 2011, contracted persona-management software so operators could run multiple online identities in theaters of interest.